The Music of Expresso bongo is a titanic, genial nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 11.533 billion Expresso bongoans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Expresso bongoan economy, worth a remarkable 1,248 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 108,243 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, gambling is outlawed, the numbers on the latest spending report are reaching stellar levels, and children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Expresso bongo's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Expresso bongo is ranked 74,165^th in the world and 545^th in eta for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 129.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.